Rusted Smile

Hearts in memory drawn before us
haste display their vesting style
Daydreams shed and plead...
restore us
dancing o'er a rusted smile
~
Chancing fancies
may discover
heart-light cast
where sins may dwell
Shadow-darkened skies
recover
the isolation sought to quell
~
Sifting through those haunting traces
ringing round a fading light
Who might stop
and trade us faces
invest a smile
to warm the night
~
To the wise
that rise above us
bend an ear to wishing well
See the dancers
push and shove us
to the brink of living hell
~~~